Ivory Springer


Whom? Our story starts on May 10th 1915 - three days after the sinking of the Lusitania by German U-Boats. Three ships simultaneously set sail from Liverpool, Plymouth and Gravesend. All attempting to reach Antarctica by the Autumn in time for the start of the arctic summer and the beginning of the narwhal dehorning season. However, tragedy looms as all three vessels simultaneously strikes a lone and rather misanthropic ice-berg 300 miles south east of the Falklands. Miraculously, a single survivor from each ship scrabbled into the remaining life-boat.

What followed has become a the stuff of legends. Our intrepid adventurers (First-Mate Harris, Able-Seaman Smith and Bosun Bush) survive hurricanes, monstrous seas, a 20 year becalming, assaults from aroused elephant seals, cannibalistic natives with woeful latrines and hordes of cruise liners packed with marauding American tourists. Eighty four years later the life boat washes up on the home shores of Blighty at the port of Bristol. It's three occupants (who, miraculously, hadn't aged a day due to a soul compromising arrangement with Sirens off The Azores) set foot on dry-land and swear on the spot that they would remain bonded together through the creation of a musical ensemble called "Ivory Springer" in homage to the 15ft wooden vessel of the same name that had been house, home, haven and, unfortunately, bathroom for the previous decades.
And? So far so good for our intrepid wayfarers. Gigs around the British Isles. Various print, wireless and cathode ray tube appearances. And the imminent release of another gramophone recording.